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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Prominente Autoren aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik schildern in diesem Buch, welche konkreten Projekte verwirklicht werden müssen, damit Deutschland in den nächsten Jahren eine Spitzenposition im Wettbewerb einnehmen kann und sich nicht mit einem Absteigerplatz zufriedengeben muss. Zu den Autoren des Buches gehören Lothar Späth, Vorsitzender des Vorstands der JENOPTIK AG, Klaus Eierhoff, Leiter der DirectGroup und Mitglied des Vorstands der Bertelsmann AG, Klaus Mangold, Mitglied des Vorstands DaimlerChrysler AG, Hubert Burda, Vorstandsvorsitzender und alleiniger Gesellschafter der Hubert Burda Media Holding, Brigitte Zypries, Staatssekretärin im Bundesministerium des Innern, Josef Brauner, Vorstandsmitglied der Deutschen Telekom AG und Ulf Böge, Präsident des Bundeskartellamts. Das Buch bietet eine Agenda für die notwendigen IT-Entwicklungen der nächsten Jahre in Deutschland. 260 pp. Deutsch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -TheAlgorithmicNumberTheorySymposiabeganin1994atCornellUniversity inIthaca,NewYorktorecognizethegrowingimportanceofalgorithmicwork in the theory of numbers. The subject of the conference is broadly construed toencompassadiversebodyofmathematics,andtocoverboththetheoretical andpracticaladvancesinthe eld. Theyhavebeenheldeverytwoyearssince: inBordeaux(Universit eBordeauxI)in1996,Portland(ReedCollege)in1998, Leiden(UniversiteitLeiden)in2000,andthepresentconferencehostedb ythe MagmaComputationalAlgebraGroupattheUniversityofSydney. TheconferenceprogramincludedinvitedtalksbyManjulBhargava(Pri n- ton),JohnCoates(Cambridge),AntoineJoux(DCSSICryptoLab),BjornP- nen(Berkeley),andTakakazuSatoh(Saitama),aswellas34contributedtalks invariousareasofnumbertheory. Inadditiontothemathematicalprogram,the conferenceincludedaspecialdinnertohonourAlfvanderPoortenofMacquarie University,ontheoccasionofhis60thbirthday. Eachpaperwasreviewedbyatleasttwoexpertsexternaltotheprogram committeeandtheselectionofpaperswasmadeonthebasisoftheserec- mendations. Weexpressourappreciationtothe66expertrefereeswhoprovided reportsonaverytightschedule. Refereeingofthesubmissionfromamemberof theMagmagroupwasorganizedbyJoeBuhler. Theprogramcommitteethanksthegenerousadvicefromorganizersofpre- ousANTSconferences,particularlyJoeBuhler,WiebBosma,HendrikLenstra, andBartdeSmit. TheconferencewasgenerouslysupportedbytheCollegeof ScienceandTechnology,theSchoolofMathematicsandStatistics(bothatthe UniversityofSydney),theAustralianDefenceScienceTechnologyOrganisation, andeSign. April2002 JohnCannon ClausFieker DavidKohel TableofContents InvitedTalks GaussCompositionandGeneralizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ManjulBhargava EllipticCurves TheCrossroadsofTheoryandComputation. . . . . . . . . . 9 JohnCoates TheWeilandTatePairingsasBuildingBlocks forPublicKeyCryptosystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 AntoineJoux UsingEllipticCurvesofRankOnetowardstheUndecidability ofHilbert sTenthProblemoverRingsofAlgebraicIntegers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 BjornPoonen Onp-adicPointCountingAlgorithmsforEllipticCurves overFiniteFields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 TakakazuSatoh NumberTheory OnArithmeticallyEquivalentNumberFieldsofSmallDegree . . . . . . . . . . . 67 WiebBosma,BartdeSmit ASurveyofDiscriminantCounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 HenriCohen,FranciscoDiazyDiaz,MichelOlivier AHigher-RankMersenneProblem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 GrahamEverest,PeterRogers,ThomasWard AnApplicationofSiegelModularFunctions toKronecker sLimitFormula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 TakashiFukuda,KeiichiKomatsu ComputationalAspectsofNUCOMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 MichaelJ. Jacobson,Jr. ,AlfredJ. vanderPoorten E cientComputationofClassNumbersofRealAbelianNumberFields. . 134 St ephaneR. Louboutin AnAcceleratedBuchmannAlgorithmforRegulatorComputation inRealQuadraticFields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 UlrichVollmer VIII TableofContents ArithmeticGeometry SomeGenus3CurveswithManyPoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 RolandAuer,JaapTop 7 8 Trinomialsax +bx+candax +bx+c withGaloisGroupsofOrder168and8 168. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 NilsBruin,NoamD. Elkies ComputationsonModularJacobianSurfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 EnriqueGonz alez-Jim enez,JosepGonz alez,JordiGu`ardia IntegralPointsonPuncturedAbelianSurfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 AndrewKresch,YuriTschinkel Genus2Curveswith(3,3)-SplitJacobian andLargeAutomorphismGroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 TonyShaska 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 13th Annual S- posium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, held July 3-5, 2002 at the Hotel Uminonakamichi, in Fukuoka, Japan. They were selected from 37 abstracts s- mitted in response to the call for papers. In addition, there were invited lectures by Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo) and Hiroki Arimura (Kyushu U- versity). Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) addresses issues of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expr- sions, graphs, point sets, and arrays, in various formats. The goal is to derive n- trivial combinatorial properties of such structures and to exploit these properties in order to achieve superior performance for the corresponding computational problems. On the other hand, an important goal is to analyze and pinpoint the properties and conditions under which searches cannot be performed e ciently. Over the past decade a steady ow of high-quality research on this subject has changed a sparse set of isolated results into a full- edged area of algorithmics. This area is continuing to grow even further due to the increasing demand for speed and e ciency that stems from important applications such as the World Wide Web, computational biology, computer vision, and multimedia systems. These involve requirements for information retrieval in heterogeneous databases, data compression, and pattern recognition. The objective of the annual CPM gathering is to provide an international forum for research in combinatorial p- tern matching and related applications. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Fourth International Workshop on Learning Classi er Systems (IWLCS 2001)washeldJuly7-8,2001,inSanFrancisco,California,duringtheGenetic andEvolutionaryComputationConference(GECCO2001). Wehaveincluded inthisvolumerevisedandextendedversionsofelevenofthepaperspresented attheworkshop. Thevolumeisorganizedintotwomainparts. The rstisdedicatedtoimportant theoreticalissuesoflearningclassi ersystemsresearchincludingthein uence ofexplorationstrategy,amodelofself-adaptiveclassi ersystems,andtheuse ofclassi ersystemsforsocialsimulation. Thesecondpartcontainspapersd- cussing applications of learning classi er systems such as data mining, stock trading,andpowerdistributionnetworks. AnappendixcontainsapaperpresentingaformaldescriptionofACS,arapidly emerginglearningclassi ersystemmodel. Thisbookistheidealcontinuationofthetwovolumesfromthepreviouswo- shops,publishedbySpringer-VerlagasLNAI1813andLNAI1996. Wehopeit willbeausefulsupportforresearchersinterestedinlearningclassi ersystems andwillprovideinsightsintothemostrelevanttopicsandthemostinteresting openissues. April2002 PierLucaLanzi WolfgangStolzmann StewartW. Wilson Organization The Fourth International Workshop on Learning Classi er Systems (IWLCS 2001)washeldJuly7-8,2001inSanFrancisco(CA),USA,duringtheGenetic andEvolutionaryConference(GECCO2001). OrganizingCommittee PierLucaLanzi PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy WolfgangStolzmann DaimlerChryslerAG,Germany StewartW. Wilson TheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,USA PredictionDynamics,USA ProgramCommittee ErikBaum NECResearchInstitute,USA AndreaBonarini PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy LashonB. Booker TheMITRECorporation,USA MartinV. Butz UniversityofWur zburg,Germany LawrenceDavis NuTechSolutions,USA TerryFogarty SouthbankUniversity,UK JohnH. Holmes UniversityofPennsylvania,USA TimKovacs UniversityofBirmingham,UK PierLucaLanzi PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy RickL. Riolo UniversityofMichigan,USA OlivierSigaud AnimatLab-LIP6,France RobertE. Smith TheUniversityofTheWestofEngland,UK WolfgangStolzmann DaimlerChryslerAG,Germany KeikiTakadama ATRInternational,Japan StewartW. Wilson TheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,USA PredictionDynamics,USA TableofContents ITheory BiasingExplorationinanAnticipatoryLearningClassi erSystem . . . . . . . 3 MartinV. Butz An Incremental Multiplexer Problem and Its Uses in Classi er System Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 LawrenceDavis,ChunshengFu,StewartW. Wilson AMinimalModelofCommunicationforaMulti-agentClassi erSystem. . 32 GillesEn ee,CathyEscazut A Representation for Accuracy-Based Assessment of Classi er System PredictionPerformance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 JohnH. Holmes ASelf-AdaptiveXCS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 JacobHurst,LarryBull TwoViewsofClassi erSystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 TimKovacs SocialSimulationUsingaMulti-agentModelBasedonClassi erSystems: TheEmergenceofVacillatingBehaviourinthe ElFarol BarProblem. . . 88 LuisMiramontesHercog,TerenceC. Fogarty II Applications XCSandGALE:AComparativeStudyofTwoLearningClassi erSystems onDataMining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 EsterBernad o,XavierLlor`a,JosepM. Garrell APreliminaryInvestigationofModi edXCSasaGenericDataMining Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 PhillipWilliamDixon,DavidW. Corne,MartinJohnOates ExplorationsinLCSModelsofStockTrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 SoniaSchulenburg,PeterRoss On-LineApproachforLossReductioninElectricPowerDistribution NetworksUsingLearningClassi erSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Patr ciaAm ancioVargas,ChristianoLyr 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Deployment is the act of taking components and readying them for productive use. There may be steps following deployment, such as installation or m- agement related functions, but all decisions about how to con gure and c- pose/assemble a component are made at the deployment stage. This is therefore the one opportunity in the software lifecycle to bridge the gap between what the component developer couldn't know about the deployment environment and what the environment's developer couldn't know about the open set of depl- able components. It is not surprising that deployment as a dedicated step gains importance when addressing issues of system-wide qualities, such as coping with constrained resources or preparing for component adaptation and system evolution. Yet, component deployment is still a discipline in its infancy: it became mainstream practice only in the mid 1990s. Much of the best practice impulse originated in products like Microsoft's Transaction Server and its approach to attribute-based programming and later products like Enterprise JavaBeans and now the Corba Component Model. All these address the speci c needs of enterprise appli- tion servers. However, the potential of the deployment concept goes far beyond this. Deployment can and should touch e ectively all truly component-based solutions. The proceedings of Component Deployment 2002 represent a good cro- section of the gamut of deployment issues. From customization to address - source constraints to recon guration of deployed systems and from architecture to design to languages, the avid reader will nd some contribution. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Fast Software Encryption is an eight-year-old workshop on symmetric cryp- graphy, including the design and cryptanalysis of block and stream ciphers, as well as hash functions. The rst Fast Software Encryption Workshop was held in Cambridge in 1993, followed by Leuven in 1994, Cambridge in 1996, Haifa in 1997, Paris in 1998, Rome in 1999, and New York in 2000. This Fast Software Encryption Workshop, FSE 2001, was held from 2-4 April 2001 in Yokohama, Japan, in cooperation with the Institute of Industrial Science, of the University of Tokyo. This year a total of 46 papers were submitted to FSE 2001. After a t- month review process, 27 papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. In addition, we were fortunate to be able to organize a special talk by Bart Preneel on the NESSIE project, a European initiative to evaluate cryptographic algorithms. The committee of this workshop was: General Chair Hideki Imai (The University of Tokyo) Program Committee Ross Anderson (Cambridge Univ. ) Eli Biham (Technion) Cunsheng Ding (Singapore) Henri Gilbert (France Telecom) Dieter Gollman (Microsoft) Thomas Johansson (Lund Univ. ) Lars Knudsen (Bergen Univ. ) James Massey (Denmark) Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi Electric, Chair) Kaisa Nyberg (Nokia) Bart Preneel (Katholieke Univ. Leuven) Bruce Schneier (Counterpane) We would like to thank all submitting authors and the committee members for their hard work. We are also appreciative of the nancial support provided by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -AISC 2002, the 6th international conference on Arti cial Intelligence and S- bolic Computation, and Calculemus 2002, the 10th symposium on the Integ- tion of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, were held jointly in Marseille, France on July 1 5, 2002. This event was organized by the three universities in Marseille together with the LSIS (Laboratoire des Sciences de l Information et des Syst` emes). AISC 2002 was the latest in a series of specialized conferences founded by John Campbell and Jacques Calmet with the initial title Arti cial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computation (AISMC) and later denoted Art- cial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation (AISC). The scope is well de ned by its successive titles. AISMC-1 (1992), AISMC-2 (1994), AISMC-3 (1996), AISC 98, and AISC 2000 took place in Karlsruhe, Cambridge, Steyr, Plattsburgh (NY), and Madrid respectively. The proceedings were published by Springer-Verlag as LNCS 737, LNCS 958, LNCS 1138, LNAI 1476, and LNAI 1930 respectively. Calculemus 2002 was the 10th symposium in a series which started with three meetings in 1996, two meetings in 1997, and then turned into a yearly event in 1998. Since then, it has become a tradition to hold the meeting jointly with an event in either symbolic computation or automated deduction. Both events share common interests in looking at Symbolic Computation, each from a di erent point of view: Arti cial Intelligence in the more general case of AISC and Automated Deduction in the more speci c case of Calculemus. 364 pp. Englisch.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -About 60 years ago, R. Brauer introduced 'block theory'; his purpose was to study the group algebra kG of a finite group G over a field k of nonzero characteristic p: any indecomposable two-sided ideal that also is a direct summand of kG determines a G-block.But the main discovery of Brauer is perhaps the existence of families of infinitely many nonisomorphic groups having a 'common block'; i.e., blocks having mutually isomorphic 'source algebras'.In this book, based on a course given by the author at Wuhan University in 1999, all the concepts mentioned are introduced, and all the proofs are developed completely. Its main purpose is the proof of the existence and the uniqueness of the 'hyperfocal subalgebra' in the source algebra. This result seems fundamental in block theory; for instance, the structure of the source algebra of a nilpotent block, an important fact in block theory, can be obtained as a corollary.The exceptional layout of this bilingual edition featuring 2 columns per page (one English, one Chinese) sharing the displayed mathematical formulas is the joint achievement of the author and A. Arabia. 224 pp. Chinesisch, Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Wahrnehmung der Kundenbedürfnisse und die zweckmässige Reaktion darauf ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für den Unternehmenserfolg. Aus der Umsetzung des Customer Relationship Management ergeben sich neue Anforderungen an die Pro- zesse im Marketing, Vertrieb und Service. Zur Realisierung des Erfolgspotenzials aus dem CRM ist eine systematische Einführung notwendig. Handlungsempfehlungen dazu liefert der hier beschriebene Methodenvorschlag zur Einführung von CRM auf allen Ebenen des Business Engineerings: der Strategie-, Prozess- und IS/IT-Ebene. Der Methodenvorschlag enthält verschiedene Techniken und Dokumente, die in Einführungsprojekten zum CRM Verwendung finden sollten, um sichere Projekte durch Erreichung der gesteckten Ziele mit angemessenen Kosten durchzuführen. 252 pp. Deutsch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Morethanadecadeago,combiningmultipleclassi erswasproposedasap- siblesolutiontotheproblemsposedbythetraditionalpatternclassi cation approachwhichinvolvedselectingthebestclassi erfromasetofcandidates basedontheirexperimentalevaluation. Asnoclassi erisknowntobethebest forallcasesandtheselectionofthebestclassi erforagivenpracticaltaskis verydi cult,diverseresearchcommunities,includingMachineLearning,N- ralNetworks,PatternRecognition,andStatistics,addressedtheengineering problemofhowtoexploitthestrengthswhileavoidingtheweaknesseso fd- ferentdesigns. Thisambitiousresearchtrendwasalsomotivatedbyempirical observationsaboutthecomplementarityofdi erentclassi erdesigns,natural requirementsofinformationfusionapplications,andintrinsicdi cultiesasso- atedwiththeoptimalchoiceofsomeclassi erdesignparameters,suchasthe architectureandtheinitialweightsforaneuralnetwork. Afteryearsofresearch, thecombinationofmultipleclassi ershasbecomeawellestablishedandexciting researcharea,whichprovidese ectivesolutionstodi cultpatternrecognition problems. Aconsiderablebodyofempiricalevidencesupportsthemeritof- signingcombinedsystemswhoseaccuracyishigherthanthatofeachindividual classi er,andvariousmethodsforthegenerationandthecombinationofm- tipleclassi ershavebecomeavailable. However,despitetheprovedutilityof multipleclassi ersystems,nogeneralanswertotheoriginalquestionaboutthe possibilityofexploitingthestrengthswhileavoidingtheweaknessesofdi erent classi erdesignshasyetemerged. Otherfundamentalissuesarealsoamatterof on-goingresearchindi erentresearchcommunities. Theresultsachievedd- ingthepastyearsarealsospreadoverdi erentresearchcommunities,andthis makesitdi culttoexchangesuchresultsandpromotetheircross-fertilization. Theacknowledgmentofthefundamentalrolethatthecreationofacommon internationalforumforresearchersofthediversecommunitiescouldplayfor theadvancementofthisresearch eldmotivatedthepresentseriesofwo- shopsonmultipleclassi ersystems. Followingitspredecessors,MultipleCl- si erSystems2000(SpringerISBN3-540-67704-6)and2001(SpringerISBN 3-540-42284-6),thisvolumecontainstheproceedingsoftheThirdInternational WorkshoponMultipleClassi erSystems(MCS2002),heldattheGrandHotel ChiaLaguna,Cagliari,Italy,onJune24-26,2002. The29papersselectedby thescienti ccommitteehavebeenorganizedinsessionsdealingwithbagging andboosting,ensemblelearningandneuralnetworks,combinationstrategies, designmethodologies,analysisandperformanceevaluation,andapplications. Theworkshopprogramandthisvolumeareenrichedwiththreeinvitedtalk s givenbyJoydeepGhosh(UniversityofTexas,USA),TrevorHastie(Stanford University,USA),andSarunasRaudys(VilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity, Lithuania). Papersweresubmittedfromresearchersofthefourdiversecom- nities,socon rmingthatthisseriesofworkshopscanbecomeacommonforum VI Foreword forexchangingviewsandreportinglatestresearchresults. Asfortheprevious editions,thesigni cantnumberofpapersdealingwithrealpatternrecognition applicationsareproofofthepracticalutilityofmultipleclassi ersystems. This workshopwassupportedbytheUniversityofCagliari,Italy,theUniversityof Surrey,Guildford,UnitedKingdom,andtheDepartmentofElectricalandEl- tronicEngineeringoftheUniversityofCagliari. Allthesesupportsaregratefully acknowledged. WealsothanktheInternationalAssociationforPatternRecog- tionanditsTechnicalCommitteeTC1onStatisticalPatternRecognitionTe- niquesforsponsoringMCS2002. Wewishtoexpressourappreciationtoallthose whohelpedtoorganizeMCS2002. Firstofall,wewouldliketothankallthe membersoftheScienti cCommitteewhoseprofessionalismwasinstrumental increatingaveryinterestingtechnicalprogram. Specialthanksareduetothe membersoftheOrganizingCommittee,GiorgioFumera,GiorgioGiacinto,and GianLucaMarcialisfortheirindispensablecontributionstotheMCS2002web sitemanagement,localorganization,andproceedingspreparation. April2002 FabioRoliandJosefKittler WorkshopChairs F. Roli(Univ. ofCagliari,Italy) J. Kittler(Univ. ofSurrey,UnitedKingdom) Scienti cCommittee J. A. Benediktsson(Iceland) M. Kamel(Canada) 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofMPC2002,thesixthinternationalc- ferenceontheMathematicsofProgramConstruction.Thisseriesofconferences aims to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably useful and usable in the process of constructing c- puter programs (whether implemented in hardware or software). The focus is ontechniquesthatcombineprecisionwith conciseness,enablingprogramsto be constructed by formal calculation. Within this theme, the scope of the series is verydiverse,including programmingmethodology,programspeci cationand transformation, programming paradigms, programming calculi, and progr- ming language semantics. The quality of the papers submitted to the conference was in general very high, and the number of submissions was comparable to that for the previous conference.Eachpaperwasrefereedbyatleastfour,andoftenmore,committee members. Inadditiontothe11papersselectedforpresentationbytheprogramcomm- tee, this volume contains three invited talks: Implementing Algebraic Dynamic Programming in the Functional and the Imperative Programming Paradigm by Robert Giegerich (Technical University of Bielefeld, Germany), and abstracts of Some Results in Dynamic Model Theory by Dexter Kozen (Cornell Univ- sity,USA)and Mathematics in Computer Science Curricula byJeannetteWing (Carnegie Mellon University, USA). The conference took place in Dagstuhl, Germany. The previous ve conf- ences wereheld in 1989in Twente,The Netherlands, in 1992in Oxford,United Kingdom,in1995inKlosterIrsee,Germany,in1998inMarstrandnearGot eborg in Sweden, and in 2000 in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. The proceedings of these conferenceswerepublishedasLNCS375,669,947,1422,and1837,respectively. Three international events were co-located with the conference: the IFIP WG2.1 working conference on Generic Programming, the third workshop on Constructive Methods for Parallel Programming, and the workshop on Types in Programming. We thank the organizers of these events for their interest in sharing the atmosphere of the conference. 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -PorTAL Portugal for Natural Language Processing follows two previous c- ferences: FracTAL, held at the Universit e de Franche-Comt e, Besan con (France), in December 1997, and VexTAL, held at Venice International University, C aF- cari (Italy), in November 1999. The main goals of theses conferences have been: (i) to bring together the NLP community in Europe; (ii) to strengthen the po- tion of local NLP research in the international NLP community; (iii) to provide a friendly forumfor discussion of new research and applications. PorTAL has recon rmed this year the goals and the high international sta- ing of those conferences, largely due to its Program Committee, composed of renowned researchers in the eld of Natural Language Processing, a third of themfromPortuguese universities. This clearly contributed to the signi cant number of papers submitted (48) by researchers from 12 di erent countries. Each paper submitted was reviewed by three reviewers, either from the P- gram Committee or by their commitment. All those who contributed are m- tioned on the following pages. The review process led to the selection of 35 papers for oral presentation: 23 regular papers and 11 short papers. They have been published in this volume. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -NGITS2002 was the fth workshop of its kind, promoting papers that discuss new technologies in information systems. Following the success of the four p- vious workshops (1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999), the fth NGITS Workshop took place on June 24-25, 2002, in the ancient city of Caesarea. In response to the Call for Papers, 22 papers were submitted. Each paper was evaluated by three Program Committee members. We accepted 11 papers from 3 continents and 5 countries, Israel (5 papers), US (3 papers), Germany, Cyprus, and The Netherlands (1 paper from each). The workshop program consisted of ve paper sessions, two keynote lectures, and one panel discussion. The topics of the paper sessions are: Advanced Query Processing, Web Applications, Moving Objects, Advanced Information Models, and Advanced Software Engineering. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers, the program committee members, the presenters, and everybody who assisted in making NGITS2002 a reality. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -2 I CS2002wasthesecondworkshoponInnovativeInternetComputingSystems, a series of international workshops on system and information management for 2 theNextGenerationInternet(NGI).TheworkshopseriescommencedwithI CS 2001, which was held at the Technical University of Ilmenau. It brought - gether scientists whose research addressed di erent aspects of Internet-based and network-centric computing. This year s workshop was held in the inspiring atmosphereoftheoldBalticSearesortofKuhlung bornnearRostock(Germany). Theunprecedentedpervasivenessofnetworkaccessandtheassociatedem- gence of large distributed computing infrastructures have presented researchers with new challenges in Information and Web technology. The management and retrieval of web-based information, the classi cation of contents, and the m- agementofweb-basedcommunitiesaresomeofthekeyareasaddressedbysome of this year s contributions. Other papers focus on the structure and retrieval ofinformationfrom largedistributed data basesaswell asthe representationof the distributed natureofinformationbythe meansofgraph-theoreticalmodels. 2 Like I CS 2001, this year s workshop was organized by the Gesellschaft fur Informatik(GI)inGermanytosupporttheexchangeofexperiences,results, and technology in the eld. The 21 papers (2 invited, 19 regular contributions) presented at the conference and in the present volume were selected from more than30submissions.Everysubmissionwascarefullyreviewedbythreemembers of the programcommittee. Wewouldliketothankallthosewhocontributedtothisbookfortheirexc- lent work and their great cooperation. Roswitha Fengler and Katrin Erdmann deserve special gratitude for their great e orts and perfect work concerning all administrativemattersoftheworkshop.Wewishtoacknowledgethesubstantial helpprovidedbyoursponsors:theUniversityofRostockandtheTKKTechniker KrankenkasseRostock. We hope all participants enjoyed a successful workshop, made a lot of new contacts,held fruitful discussions helping to solvethe actualresearchproblems, and had a pleasant stay on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Last but not least we 2 hope to see you again at the third I CS conference in 2003, which will be held in the Leipzig area in the heart of Germany. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eine ganzheitliche myofunktionelle Therapie umfasst eine wirkungsvolle Kombination von logopädischer, physiotherapeutischer und ggf. kieferchirurgischer Behandlung. Die Autorinnen machen die Chancen in der Vernetzung therapeutischer Ansätze deutlich und zeigen, wie sie effektiv genutzt werden.- Alle wichtigen physiotherapeutischen Aspekte- Verständliche Anleitungen und Übungen- Therapie-Materialien und Bezugsquellen 200 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Ein einzigartiges Buch, das nur von einem Mann wie Ernst Mayr geschrieben werden konnte, der nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Evolutionsbiologen dieses Jahrhunderts, sondern auch ein großer Philosoph, Biologiehistoriker und außergewöhnlicher Schriftsteller ist. Kein anderes Buch erzählt so klar und kritisch die Evolution der Ideen, die zur modernen Biologie führten.'(Nobelpreisträger François Jacob) TOC:Einführung: Wie schreibt man eine Geschichte der Biologie Begriffsstruktur und Stellung der Biologie in der Naturwissenschaft; Das wechselnde geistige Milieu der Biologie.- Teil I: Vielfalt des Lebens (Makrotaxonomie: die Wissenschaft der Klassifikation, gemeinsame Abstammung, Mikrotaxonomie: die Wissenschaft von den Arten).- Teil II: Evolution (Entstehungsgeschichten ohne Evolution, Evolution vor Darwin, Darwins Beweismaterial für Evolution und gemeinsame Abstammung, natürliche Auslese, Vielfalt und Synthese des Evolutionsdenkens, Entwicklung nach der Synthese der Evolutionsbiologie).- Teil III: Variation und ihre Vererbung (Frühe Theorien und Züchtungsversuche, Keimzellen, Natur der Vererbung, Mendelsche Genetik, Gentheorien, chemische Basis der Vererbung, Wege zu einer Wissenschaft der Wissenschaft).- Glossar (einschließlich Erklärung englischer Fachausdrücke).- Literaturverzeichnis.- Personen- und Sachverzeichnis. 792 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2002, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2002.The 24 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on embedded systems, case studies, real-time systems, high-integrity systems, Ada language issues, program analysis, tools, distributed systems, and libraries and APIs. 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ThisvolumecontainspaperspresentedattheFifteenthAnnualConferenceon ComputationalLearningTheory(COLT2002)heldonthemaincampusofthe UniversityofNewSouthWalesinSydney,AustraliafromJuly8to10,2002. Naturally,thesearepapersinthe eldofcomputationallearningtheory,a- search elddevotedtostudyingthedesignandanalysisofalgorithmsformaking predictionsaboutthefuturebasedonpastexperiences,withanemphasisonr- orousmathematicalanalysis. COLT2002wasco-locatedwiththeNineteenthInternationalConferenceon MachineLearning(ICML2002)andwiththeTwelfthInternationalConference onInductiveLogicProgramming(ILP2002). NotethatCOLT2002wasthe rstconferencetotakeplaceafterthefull mergeroftheAnnualConferenceonComputationalLearningTheorywiththe EuropeanConferenceonComputationalLearningTheory. (In2001ajointc- ferenceconsistingofthe5thEuropeanConferenceonComputationalLearning Theoryandthe14thAnnualConferenceonComputationalLearningTheory washeld;thelastindependentEuropeanConferenceonComputationalLea- ingTheorywasheldin1999. ) ThetechnicalprogramofCOLT2002contained26papersselectedfrom 55submissions. Inaddition,ChristosPapadimitriou(UniversityofCaliforniaat Berkeley)wasinvitedtogiveakeynotelectureandtocontributeanabstra ctof hislecturetotheseproceedings. TheMarkFulkAwardispresentedannuallyforthebestpapercoauthored byastudent. Thisyear sawardwaswonbySandraZillesforthepaper Merging UniformInductiveLearners. April2002 JyrkiKivinen RobertH. Sloan Thanks and Acknowledgments Wegratefullythankalltheindividualsandorganizationsresponsibleforthe successoftheconference. ProgramCommittee Weespeciallywanttothanktheprogramcommittee:DanaAngluin(Yale), JavedAslam(Dartmouth),PeterBartlett(BIOwulfTechnologies),ShaiBen- David(Technion),JohnCase(Univ. ofDelaware),PeterGru nwald(CWI),Ralf Herbrich(MicrosoftResearch),MarkHerbster(UniversityCollegeLondon), G aborLugosi(PompeuFabraUniversity),RonMeir(Technion),ShaharMend- son(AustralianNationalUniv. ),MichaelSchmitt(Ruhr-Universit atBochum), RoccoServedio(Harvard),andSantoshVempala(MIT). WealsoacknowledgethecreatorsoftheCyberChairsoftwareformakinga softwarepackagethathelpedthecommitteedoitswork. Local Arrangements, Co-located Conferences Support SpecialthanksgotoourconferencechairArunSharmaandlocalarrangements chairEricMartin(bothatUniv. ofNewSouthWales)forsettingupCOLT2002 inSydney. RochelleMcDonaldandSueLewisprovidedadministrativesupport. ClaudeSammutinhisroleasconferencechairofICMLandprogramco-chair ofILPensuredsmoothcoordinationwiththetwoco-locatedconferences. COLT Community ForkeepingtheCOLTseriesgoing,wethanktheCOLTsteeringcommittee, andespeciallyChairJohnShawe-TaylorandTreasurerJohnCaseforalltheir hardwork. WealsothankStephenKwekformaintainingtheCOLTwebsiteat learningtheory. org. Sponsoring Institution SchoolofComputerScienceandEngineering,UniversityofNewSouthWales, Australia VIII Thanks and Acknowledgments Referees PeterAuer LisaHellerstein AlainPajor AndrewBarto DanielHerrmann GunnarR atsch StephaneBoucheron ColindelaHiguera RobertSchapire OlivierBousquet SeanHolden JohnShawe-Taylor Nicol`oCesa-Bianchi MarcusHutter TakeshiShinohara TapioElomaa SanjayJain DavidShmoys RanEl-Yaniv YuriKalnishkan YoramSinger AllanErskine MakotoKanazawa CarlSmith HenningFernau SatoshiKobayashi FrankStephan J urgenForster VladimirKoltchinskii Gy orgyTur an DeanFoster MattiKa ariai nen PaulVitan yi ClaudioGentile WeeSunLee ManfredWarmuth JudyGoldsmith ShieMannor JonA. Wellner ThoreGraepel RyanO Donnell RobertC. Williamson Table of Contents Statistical Learning Theory AgnosticLearningNonconvexFunctionClasses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shahar Mendelson andRobertC. Williamson Entropy,CombinatorialDimensionsandRandomAverages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Shahar Mendelson andRoman Vershynin GeometricParametersofKernelMachines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Shahar Mendelson LocalizedRademacherComplexities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 PeterL. 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ThepapersinthisvolumewerepresentedatSWAT2002,theEighthScandi- vianWorkshoponAlgorithmTheory. Theworkshop,whichisreallyaconference, hasbeenheldbienniallysince1988,rotatingbetweenthe veNordiccountries (Denmark,Finland,Iceland,Norway,andSweden). Italsohasalooseassoc- tionwiththeWADS(WorkshoponAlgorithmsandDataStructures)conference thatisheldinoddnumberedyears. SWATisintendedasaforumforrese- chersintheareaofdesignandanalysisofalgorithms. TheSWATconferences arecoordinatedbytheSWATsteeringcommittee,whichconsistsofB. Aspvall (Bergen),S. Carlsson(Lule a),H. Hafsteinsson(Iceland),R. Karlsson(Lund), A. Lingas(Lund),E. M. Schmidt(Arhus),andE. Ukkonen(Helsinki). Thecallforpaperssoughtcontributionsinallareasofalgorithmsanddata structures,includingcomputationalgeometry,parallelanddistributedcom- ting, graph theory, computational biology, and combinatorics. A total of 103 papers were submitted, out of which the program committee selected 43 for presentation. In addition, invited lectures were presented by Torben Hagerup (Frankfurt)andHeikkiMannila(Helsinki). SWAT2002washeldinTurku,July3-5,2002,andwaslocallyorganizedbya committeeconsistingofT. J arvi(chair),L. Bergroth,T. Kaukoranta,T. Raita, J. Smed,andJ. Teuhola(secr. ),allfromtheDepartmentofComputerScience, UniversityofTurku. Wewishtothankalltherefereeswhoaidedinevaluatingthepapers. Wealso thanktheAcademyofFinland,TurkuCentreforComputerScience(TUCS), andTurkuUniversityFoundationfor nancialsupport. July2002 MarttiPenttonen ErikMeinecheSchmidt Organization SWAT2002wasorganizedbytheDepartmentofComputerScience,University ofTurku. ProgramCommittee MarttiPenttonen,UniversityofKuopio(co-chair) ErikMeinecheSchmidt,Universityof Arhus(co-chair) MicahAdler,UniversityofMassachusetts MartinDietzfelbinger,TechnischeUniversit atIlmenau PinarHeggernes,UniversityofBergen GiuseppeF. Italiano,UniversityofRome HaimKaplan,TelAvivUniversity RolfKarlsson,UniversityofLund JyrkiKatajainen,UniversityofCopenhagen OlliNevalainen,UniversityofTurku JopSibeyn,UniversityofUme a MichielSmid,CarletonUniversity Referees IstoAho RolfFagerberg ChristosLevcopoulos TeroAittokallio JiriFiala MosheLewenstein LyudmilAleksandrov JarlFriis AndrzejLingas StephenAlstrup LeszekG asieniec Eva-MartaLundell MattiasAndersson JordanGergov BengtNilsson EstieArkin HectorGonzalez-Banos JyrkiNummenmaa LasseBergroth HenrikGrove JeppeNejsumMadsen AnneBerry JoachimGudmundsson FredrikManne PhilipBille IngeLiGørtz UlrichMeyer HolgerBlaar MikaelHammar PeterBroMiltersen JeanBlair IiroHonkala MichaelMinock JormaBoberg HeikkiHyyr o PatMorin JesperBojesen ChristianIcking ErkkiM akinen GerthS. Brodal TiborJordan RasmusPagh WentongCai DavidGroveJørgensen TomiPasanen JianerChen JarkkoKari ChristianN. S. Pedersen ArturCzumaj MichaelKaufmann MortenNicolajPedersen CamilDemetrescu TimoKnuutila MiaPersson AndersDessmark PetterKristiansen ElyPorat FrankDrewes ElmarLangetepe AndrzejProskurowski X Organization YuvalRabani MikkelSigurd JanArneTelle PrabhakarRagde SteveSkiena JukkaTeuhola JagathRajapakse SørenSkov J. Urrutia TheisRauhe ChristianSloper PawelWinter FrederikRønn RobertoSolis-Oba LarsYde PeterSanders Hans-HenrikStærfeldt MartinZachariasen PetraSche er KokichiSugihara RodedSharan ArieTamir TableofContents InvitedSpeakers AnE cientQuasidictionary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Torben Hagerup, Rajeev Raman CombiningPatternDiscoveryandProbabilisticModelinginData Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Heikki Mannila Scheduling TimeandSpaceE cientMulti-methodDispatching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Stephen Alstrup, Gerth Stølting Brodal, Inge Li Gørtz, Theis Rauhe LinearTimeApproximationSchemesforVehicleScheduling. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 John E. Augustine, Steven S. Seiden MinimizingMakespanfortheLazyBureaucratProblem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Clint Hepner, Cli Stein APTASfortheSingleM 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume is the eighth in the Intelligent Agents series associated with the ATAL workshops. These workshops on 'Agent Theories, Architectures, and L- guages' have established themselves as a tradition, and play the role of small but internationally well-known conferences on the subject, where besides theory per se also integration of theory and practice is in focus. Speci cally, ATAL - dresses issues of theories of agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for realizing agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent-based systems. ATAL 2001 featured two special tracks in which both the more theoretical / formal and the more practical aspects were present, viz. 'Formal Theories of Negotiation', organized by Frank Dignum, and 'Agents for Hand-Held, Mobile, or Embedded Devices', organized by Tim Finin. There was also an extra session on RoboCup Rescue, organized and presented by Satoshi Tadokoro and Ranjit Nair. ATAL 2001 attracted 68 papers from over 20 countries all over the world, of which 30 were selected for presentation at the workshop and publication in this volume. We invited two outstanding speakers: Fausto Giunchiglia (Trento, Italy) and Tom Dean (Brown, USA). 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets. The aim of the Petri net conferences is to createaforumfordiscussingprogressinthe applicationandtheoryofPetrinets. Typically, the conferences have 100-150participants one third of these coming from industry while the rest are from universities and research institutions. The conferences always take place in the last week of June. The conference and a number of other activities are co-ordinated by a ste- ing committee with the following members: G. Balbo (Italy), J. Billington (A- tralia),G.De Michelis(Italy),S.Haddad(France),K.Jensen(Denmark),S.- magai (Japan), T. Murata (USA), C.A. Petri (Germany; honorary member), W. Reisig (Germany), G. Rozenberg (The Netherlands; chairman), and M. Silva (Spain). Other activities before and during the 2002 conference included tool dem- strations, extensive introductory tutorials, two advanced tutorials on Work ow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems and Model Checking , and two workshops on Software Engineering and Formal Methods and Formal Me- ods Applied to Defence Systems . The tutorial notes and workshop proceedings are not published in this volume, but copies are available from the organ- ers. The proceedings can be found at CRPIT.html. The 2002 conference was organized by the Computer Systems Engineering Centre, School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia with assistance from the Department of Computer Science, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia. We would like to thankthemembersoftheorganizingcommittee(seenextpage)andtheir teams. 460 pp. Englisch.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book collects many helpful techniques for obtaining regularity results for solutions of nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. These are applied in various cases to provide useful examples and relevant results, particularly in such fields as fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, semiconductor theory and game theory. 456 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The International conference on Multiscale problems in science and technol ogy; Challenges to mathematical analysis and applications brought together mathematicians working on multiscale techniques (homogenisation, singular perturbation) and specialists from applied sciences who use these techniques. Our idea was that mathematicians could contribute to solving problems in the emerging applied disciplines usually overlooked by them and that specialists from applied sciences could pose new challenges for multiscale problems. Numerous problems in natural sciences contain multiple scales: flows in complex heterogeneous media, many particles systems, composite media, etc. Mathematically, we are led to study of singular homogenisation limits and the procedure is called upscaling or homogenisation. The processes to be up scaled are usually described by differential equations. For simple cases, when the differential equation is linear and the heterogeneities are periodic some progress has been made. However, most natural phenomena are described by nonlinear differential equations in a random nonhomogeneous medium and, despite an intensive development in recent years, there are many open problems. The objective of the conference was to bring together leading special ists from Europe and the United States and to discuss new challenges in this quickly developing field. Topics of the conference were Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applied Analysis, with direct applications to the modeling in Material Sciences, Petroleum Engineering and Hydrodynamics. 328 pp. Englisch.